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Reports empty branches in a RegExp alternation. For example:<br> <code>a<b>||</b>b</code>
<p>An empty branch will only match the empty string, and in most cases that is not what is desired.
This inspection will not report a single empty branch at the start or the end of an alternation.
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<p><small>New in 2017.2</small>
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